if i release my black moor goldfish into the wild will he become skinny?

Question

the goldfish will have to hunt for their own food.the goldfish will no longer be fat.

Answer 1

If he survived the predators - probably not, as they eat everything! He would not survive out in the wild.

Answer 2

Stones and gravel can present a problem, and there are a few things it is good to do to prevent possible difficulties. Goldfish are naturally grazers, like cows. They should be fed small meals three or four times a day to prevent damage to their digestive systems which are naturally adapted to a grazing habit. Goldfish, like their carp ancestors, have an instinct to dig into mud and silt at the bottom of a natural lake or stream, looking for worms, insects, plant roots, anything edible. Their instincts don't warm them about stones because those are in fast flowing areas that goldfish naturally avoid. Because of that they can damage their mouth on the stones. Large gravel anything close to the size of a pea or larger, is especially problematic because it can trap rotting food under it out of reach of the goldfish and can block the goldfish's intestines if accidentally swallowed. Black moor fins have been elongated by human selection and can drag across the bottom, picking up debris that will cause infection and damage. It's best to keep goldfish in a bare bottom tank for this reason. You can regularly siphon out any detritus that appears. I often keep sand or very fine grained rounded gravel in the bottom of my tanks with the bare bottom tanks reserved for the more difficult goldfish breeds. I would remove the gravel from the tank making it more suitable for goldfish. If you must something on the bottom for your own esthetic needs, I'd suggest Estes brand aquarium sand because it has a coating that makes it inert and helps prevent it from splitting into sharp pieces. The other thing to do is to get and/or grow duckweed and live daphnia. Duckweed is a very useful and healthy food for goldfish, koi, and carp floats on the top and so draws the goldfish away from spending too much time near the bottom. It's easy to grow some in another tank or container. Daphnia is going to swim jerkily all over the aquarium, drawing the goldfish to explore all of its habitation. It takes a while for the goldfish to hunt it all down, and so it replicates a natural feeding pattern of grazing. It should be fed at least once every two weeks to all compressed body breeds of goldfish to prevent the most common problems they can get sick from. Goldfish have very long intestine that is confined in this unnatural body shape. Daphnia when alive contains digestive bacteria and enzymes that enable the goldfish to digest its food properly. Daphnia also provides bulk fiber through its indigestible exoskeleton, preventing and curing the early stages of swim bladder disease. Preserved or cooked daphnia lose these valuable enzymes and bacteria, so it's the live daphnia that should be fed. And dead daphnia don't swim all over the tank either. I get them both from a store that can set up a regular delivery (standing order) of these to you if you live in the US. You may find some other store near you or online. This one linked below is my favorite and unlike some others have daphnia and duckweed available year round.

Answer 3

Releasing it in the wild can cause a lot of problems with the native population of fish not only in the body of water you release it in, also in any connecting bodies of water. Goldfish are a very tough aggressive fish and instead of losing weight or dieing, they can easily take over, first killing off all the baby fish and as the goldfish breed and grow bigger, they attack bigger things.
You never know when you could end up in some lake swimming with goldfish nibbling your toes!

Answer 4

Are you intentionally posting questions with the intent of trying to irritate the goldfish lovers on here? This is the second post you've made with some "goldfish in the wild" comment.

Answer 5

I hope this is a theoretical question!

No, he won't get skinny. Black moors are bred to have the huge abdomen, just like the protruding eyes. So, it's in their genetics to always look "fat":
http://www.bristol-aquarists.org.uk/goldfish/moor/moor2.jpg,
http://www.greenparktropical.com/Fish/images/Goldfish/Black%20Moor%20GoldFish.jpg

Releasing any fish into the wild is not a good idea - for the fish, or anything else that lives there already - unless you have it in your own backyard pond.

Answer 6

Well, your goldfish may be eaten before it can hunt or learn to fend for itself. The goldfish may not know how to find food for itself either- I don't think releasing your fish into the wild would be such a wise decision...

Answer 7

Don;t release any aquarium fish into the wild. The U.S. just passed stricter laws on the importation of goldfish because of a disease that can spread from ornimental carp to wild species.

Answer 8

Why not try feeding him less if you want him to lose weight. Many states have laws prohibiting release of non-native species INCLUDING FISH. Non-native species can wreak havoc on local populations. Unless you have a fishpond on your own property and no way for the fish to get into some other body of water DON'T LET IT GO.

Answer 9

more than likelly he will be eaten. there are a lot bigger things in than him in most ponds. you can put your moor on a diet to make him skinny. feed him 1/2 what you usually do. i use pellets to regulate how much my goldfish eat. it is a lot harder regualting flakes.

Answer 10

if you really want to get rid of him, go to craigslist.org and give him away. or, take him to a farm or ranch, and ask them to put him in thier stock tanks. he needs a lot of room, and he's domesticated. chances are, he won't be able to fight for his food, and he's used to fish flakes. they don't have fish flakes in the rivers.... if you were closer, i'd take him.

besides that, chances are he wouldn't make it past a couple of days, if that. he'd get eaten, because he doesn't have those natural 'koi' instincts any more, because he is domesticated. that would be like dropping a housecat in the forest and expecting it to get along with the mountain lions and stuff, it'd get eaten.

just don't let him go, take care of him, or give him away.